NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 244 September 1978 Page 1 
The NEW YORK SHELL CLUB meets on the second Sunday of each month, 
September through June, in 
ROOM » AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, at 2:00 p.m. 
PROGRAM: SEASHELLS AND SEASHORES, a color slide presentation 
by George Raeihle 

CONTENTS 
Page 
Announcements: June 1978 Elections 1 
Display case available 1 
Obituaries: Frank Abbottsmith 1 
Toni Wood 2 
Helen Denny 2 
Highlights of the May Meeting Milton Werner 2 
Come to the Keys! Margaret Teskey 3 
C.0.A. Convention 1978 Martin Lerner 4 
Parasitic Crabs and Mollusks Jack B. Pearce 5 
Highlights of the AMU Meeting Dorothy Raeihle 8 
Scaptia mercadoi Old, 1968 Robert Janowsky 9 

ANNUAL ELECTIONS 
At our June meeting the slate proposed by the nominating committee 
was approved as presented. We welcome our officers for the coming 
year: President William R. Walkwitz, Vice-president Fred Cannon, 
Carresponding Secretary Marie Sussman, Recording Secretary Milton 
Werner, and Treasurer Mathilde Weingartner. Our directors for the 
new season are, in alphabetical order, Dorothy Janowsky, Nick Kat- 
saras, William E. Old and Harold Sussman. 
Our sincere thanks to retiring officers President Veronica P. Johns 
and Corresponding Secretary Monique Caubere, 

FOR YOUR DISPLAY 
The club has been granted the use of a locked display case. Anyone 
who wishes to display shells at a club meeting is free to use this 
case. Please contact Vice-president Fred Cannon to arrange for use 
of the case. WEO 
FRANK ABBOTTSMITH 
On June 18th, 1978, Frank Abbottsmith of Perth, Australia, passed 
away in his fac after a long illness. Typically, Frank didn't let 
his poor state of health interfere with this year's world tour plans 
which included a stop in New York. Unfortunately he had to rush 
home to Perth from London in May when he found it impossible to con- 
tinue. He was a government worker whose retirement project was to 

